The People's Republic of Walmart - Leigh Phillips & Michał Rozworski (Full Audiobook)

Summary:
For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be subjected to a plan. And yet, as Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue, much of the economy of the West is centrally planned at present. Not only is planning on vast scales possible, we already have it and it works. The real question is whether planning can be democratic. Can it be transformed to work for us?

Timestamps:
0:00 introduction
28:24 could walmart be a secret socialist plot?
1:19:37 islands of tyranny
2:10:48 mapping the amazon
2:53:31 index funds as sleeper agents of planning
3:38:21 nationalization is not enough
4:20:27 did they even plan the soviet union?
5:21:12 hardly automated space communism
6:16:20 allende's socialist internet
6:50:03 planning the good anthropocene
7:05:46 conclusion: planning works

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